This Labrador City senior loves marathons - he's finished each of the world majors

CBC

04-05-2025

A Labrador City man has joined an elite club of runners by completing all six of the world's major marathons.
Elliott Rowe recently completed the Tokyo Marathon, with a time of 5:38:20. He's already completed the other major marathons in Boston, Chicago, New York, Berlin and London.
It's a challenge he took on later in life, joining a Labrador West running club in 2010, and completing the Tokyo marathon at age 70.
"I started doing my runs leading up to a half marathon, and I was doing fairly good, I must say," Rowe said, as he recalled his initial training.
"I was up for the challenge, so that's what I did. Trained for the marathon, and my goal was basically four hours."
Rowe finished his first marathon with a time of 3:56:52, and later checked off a bucket list item with the completion of the Boston Marathon in around four hours and four minutes.
"That got me, more or less, addicted," he said.
"It's the feeling you get when you finish."
Rowe has since completed 15 more marathons.
He said the feeling never gets old.
Tokyo proved a challenge, he said, given hot conditions and a fall in January. However, he pushed through.
"I persevered, and I was so happy when I finished [at] the finish line. They put the six-medal medallion on you," he said.
The six medals represent the completion of each major marathon.
Rowe said if other runners have aspirations to complete a marathon, it's important to ease your way into it by gradually building up distance and training over time.